My favorite reads, so take them seriously
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Because of Winn-Dixie
Kate DiCamillo · 2009
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan · 2006
The Odyssey
Homer · 2018
The Illiad
Homer
Macbeth
William Shakespeare · 2013
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson · 2020
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Jekyll Hyde, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London legal practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" entering the vernacular to refer to people with an unpredictably dual nature: usually very good, but sometimes shockingly evil. A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!
Dracula
Bram Stoker · 2000
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 2002
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 2020
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck · 2025
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck recounts the tale of two uprooted traveler laborers, George Milton and Lennie Little, during the Economic crisis of the early 20s in California. George is little, sharp-witted, and defensive of his friend, Lennie, who is, serious areas of strength for enormous, intellectually debilitated. Together, they fantasy about possessing a little homestead, a dream that gives them trust regardless of their cruel reality. In any case, Lennie's absence of command over his solidarity prompts a sad mishap when he unexpectedly kills a lady, constraining George to go with a deplorable choice to shield Lennie from a horde. The novel investigates subjects of fellowship, dejection, dreams, and the brutality of life for underestimated people.
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2004
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2024
Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson · 2011
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold · 2004
The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe · 2015
Puddnhead Wilson
Mark Twain · 1999
Holes
Louis Sachar · 2001
Anatomy: A Love Story
Schwartz Dana · 2022
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.K. Rowling · 2015
<p><i>Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'.</i><br><br>Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!<br><br><br><i>Having become classics of our time, the Harry Potter eBooks never fail to bring comfort and escapism. With their message of hope, belonging and the enduring power of truth and love, the story of the Boy Who Lived continues to delight generations of new readers.</i></p>
Interview with the Vampire (Vampire Chronicles)
Anne Rice · 1997
Twilight (The Twilight Saga)
Stephenie Meyer · 2022
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare · 1993
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins · 2008
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha, 1)
Tomi Adeyemi · 2018
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi: A Novel
S. A. Chakraborty · 2023
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Sangu Mandanna · 2022
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Gregory Maguire · 2000
The New York Times bestseller and basis for the Tony-winning hit musical, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande<br/>With millions of copies in print around the world, Gregory Maguire’s Wicked is established not only as a commentary on our time but as a novel to revisit for years to come. Wicked relishes the inspired inventions of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, while playing sleight of hand with our collective memories of the 1939 MGM film starring Margaret Hamilton (and Judy Garland). In this fast-paced, fantastically real, and supremely entertaining novel, Maguire has populated the largely unknown world of Oz with the power of his own imagination.<br/>Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz’s most promising young citizens.<br/>But Elphaba’s Oz is no utopia. The Wizard’s secret police are everywhere. Animals—those creatures with voices, souls, and minds—are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals—even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas.<br/>Recognized as an iconoclastic tour de force on its initial publication, the novel has inspired the blockbuster musical of the same name—one of the longest-running plays in Broadway history. Popular, indeed. But while the novel’s distant cousins hail from the traditions of magical realism, mythopoeic fantasy, and sprawling nineteenth-century sagas of moral urgency, Maguire’s Wicked is as unique as its green-skinned witch.
Vicious
V. E. Schwab · 2013
Night
Elie Wiesel · 2012
A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)
George R. R. Martin · 2003
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 1992
<b><b><b><b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • </b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a<b>n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (<i>Village Voice</i>)</b>, f<b>rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Goldfinch.<br><br></i></b></b></b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.<br><br><b>“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b>
My Cousin Rachel
Daphne du Maurier · 2013
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
Brom · 2021
The Child Thief: A Novel
Brom · 2009
The acclaimed artist Brom brilliantly displays his multiple extraordinary talents in The Child Thief—a spellbinding re-imagining of the beloved Peter Pan story that carries readers through the perilous mist separating our world from the realm of Faerie. As Gregory Maguire did with his New York Times bestselling Wicked novels, Brom takes a classic children’s tale and turns it inside-out, painting a Neverland that, like Maguire’s Oz, is darker, richer, more complex than innocent world J.M. Barrie originally conceived. An ingeniously executed literary feat, illustrated with Brom’s sumptuous artwork, The Child Thief is contemporary fantasy at its finest—casting Peter Pan, the Lost Boys, even Captain Hook and his crew in a breathtaking new light.
Phantom of the opera
Gaston Leroux · 2023
Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier · 1997
